Sabbir, Mushfiqur lead Bangladesh resurgence
DUO FANTASTICO: Sabbir and Mushfiqur arrested Bangladesh’s slip opposite Aussie spinner with a 105-run mount for a fifth wicket. PHOTO: AFP
CHITTAGONG: Captain Mushfiqur Rahim and Sabbir Rahman common a century mount to assistance Bangladesh quarrel behind from Nathan Lyon’s five-wicket transport and lead a hosts to 253 for 6 on a opening day of a second and final Test opposite Australia on Monday.
Leading Australia’s three-pronged spin conflict with a new round in hand, Lyon claimed 3 wickets in a morning event and another shortly after lunch to revoke Bangladesh to 85-4 during a Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium.
Sabbir and Mushfiqur arrested a slip with a 105-run mount for a fifth wicket. Sabbir fell after tea though Mushfiqur was batting on 62 during stumps with Nasir Hossain on 19.
Desperate to turn a array after being shamed inside 4 days in Dhaka, Australia went in with 3 spinners and a sole paceman in Pat Cummins, a plan they had not employed given 1978.
Lyon was rewarded for his crafty change of pace, and a Bangladesh batsmen paid a cost for personification him on a behind feet with a round mostly gripping low.
Mushfiqur won an critical toss and unsurprisingly opted to bat opposite a spin-heavy Australian side though a hosts did not get a start they were looking for.
Opener Tamim Iqbal looked worried opposite Cummins’ gait and was spilled in a slips by Glenn Maxwell. Lyon ensured it did not unequivocally matter, however, trapping a opener lbw for 9 with a quicker delivery.
Four overs later, Imrul Kayes fell in a same conform after Australia successfully reviewed a strange not-out decision. Soumya Sarkar combined 49 runs with Mominul Haque though Bangladesh suffered another reversal on a cadence of lunch.
Lyon sent down a skidding smoothness to boot Soumya for 33 and returned after a interlude to explain Mominul for 31, a fourth unbroken lbw decision. Ashton Agar took a critical wicket of Shakib Al Hasan, a designer of Bangladesh’s stirring 20-run win in Dhaka, for 24 with under-fire Matthew Wade holding a excellent locate behind a stumps.
Sabbir was not fearful to play his shots and stepped out to strike Lyon for a 6 in his martial 66 before Wade effected a intelligent stumping to give Lyon his third five-wicket transport in unbroken Tests. Mushfiqur was his common stoical self during a other finish as he brought adult his 18th Test fifty.
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